The Last Bass Outpost

The Stingray uses active NEO Pickups. Not enough info on the 916 website to tell if they are active or passive…..

Are the pickups themselves actually active, like EMGs? It sounds to me like they're running the pickup through an onboard 18V pre-amp. The 916 pickups only have two wires, and the description of the neo P says "no need for batteries".

8 string fretless 'bird. That's unique! I remember Sting had an 8 string fretless Hamer Explorer in the early 80s.

I'm kind of curious about this too. The TB+ in my '94 Les Paul, also a pair I bought off eBay, AND the chrome guitar-sized ones on my Fenderbird look exactly like these on the bottom.

My snowblower is sitting in the shed with two flat tires I never bothered to get fixed before the season.

Ugh, yeah, I've done similar. The only two snows we've had so far were too wet to use the blower for anyway. I've got close to 100' of driveway from the garage to the street.

Very cool Rob! Great idea, and it looks very well executed.

Killer bass. Love the color and it sounds great.

I think they both played with Led Zeppelin once.

Graham’s short hair and lounge lizard attire was an issue for me like for 10 seconds, his vocals, though high, were so manly. And I liked his laddishness and devil may care attitude on stage. I it was all new to him, he had never really toured for extended periods before and had never heard of Rainbow nor did he like hard rock.

I saw him win over a belligerent audience of Rainbow fans raised on their beloved Dio when he toured Germany with Rainbow for the first time. As he appeared on stage with his James Dean haircut, the dinner jacket, a Hawaii shirt and red trousers, they gasped for air, but he had them eating from his hand by the end of the first song (Eyes of the World).

But for you, Tom, here’s the long hair version …

Wow! What a vocal performance that was.

Larry Junstrom, the bass player, was the original bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd before Leon Wilkeson. He did great work on the song "Rockin' into the night".

Cool, I had no idea. I know Ed King played bass on the first album, but I didn't know there was a guy before Leon. The bass does stand out on some of the .38 stuff.

Underrated Canadian guitarist Frank Marino.  Unfortunately, Marino is too ill to play in public anymore.

I saw Mahogany Rush in 1980 with Humble Pie and Angel. Frank was enjoying a little success here in the states with "Strange Dreams" at the time. He was REALLY loud, and there seemed to be a guitar solo between every song, but it was a very cool night at the good old Aragon Brawlroom.

Those are Schaller M4, exactly like the ones I have. Hamer used them too with the Hamer logo stamped on the back. Schaller often put guitar manufacturer names on their bridges too.